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Comment Re:What's the point of cloning a pet? (Score 1) 116

actually it would be like the current fungal infection scare with bananas the Dwarf Cavendish(sp) which are seedless then pre-1950 bananas where the Gros Michel (sp) which had seeds, are still around rare. on a side note the banana genome is just strange we have done some truly weird things to these plants with just breeding.

Comment Re:"allow us to do away with this disease".... (Score 1) 209

there are different strains of malaria, but the one most common and damaging to humans is Plasmodium falciparum ( by way not a bacteria) and pretty much exclusive to humans since the main vector of transmission is An. gambiae a mosquito that feeds almost exclusively on humans as well. So if you eliminate the natural reservoirs i.e. infected humans, you can eliminate the disease or at least its most virulent form.

Comment Re:great (Score 2) 128

except it does, it often selects for attractiveness examples include; attracting birds and others to eat fruit thereby moving the seeds, bees to drink nectar to spread the pollen, or flies in the case of others , ants to live in and on a tree to defend it from other predators, and you can keep going. nature generally solves each problem in many different ways.

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